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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996),  Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).  Other notable films include White Men Can't Jump(1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Zombieland (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Now You See Me (2013), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015).  Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and a detective in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014). He also portrayed E. Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House Plumbers (2023).
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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996),  Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).  Other notable films include White Men Can't Jump(1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Zombieland (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Now You See Me (2013), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015).  Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and a detective in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014). He also portrayed E. Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House Plumbers (2023).
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
E! True Hollywood Story
Real Time with Bill Maher
Will & Grace
Frasier
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Honest Trailers
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Simpsons
The Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
HBO First Look
The Daily Show
Dear John
Celebrities Uncensored
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
She's Having a Baby
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wildcats
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Anger Management
True Detective
The Thin Red Line
Cheers
Venom
The Electric State
Triangle of Sadness
The Outsider
2012
Friends with Benefits
A Prairie Home Companion
Triple 9
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Surfer, Dude
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Wag the Dog
No Country for Old Men
Now You See Me 2
Indecent Proposal
Midway
After the Sunset
Out of the Furnace
Kate
Suncoast
Seven Pounds
Fly Me to the Moon
Now You See Me
Bunraku
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Messenger
War for the Planet of the Apes
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Money Train
Zombieland
The Man from Toronto
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Brothers
The Glass Castle
The Highwaymen
The Edge of Seventeen
Zombieland: Double Tap
Champions
White House Plumbers
Kingpin
Natural Born Killers
Free Jimmy
Last Breath
Production Credits
The Highwaymen
True Detective
Champions
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
White House Plumbers
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